Let's meet the meat of Montreal

Posted by David on Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 6:47 AM.

The vegetarians in the crowd may want to skip past this post. Omnivores, come join me on a beautiful journey.

As with everything else, the meat in Montreal was wonderful. Some of the pictures below are from a vertically-integrated pork producer who has total control over quality, shipping, and pricing of his product. Rodney told me about an area where the sheep farmers (ranchers?) herd their sheep into tidelands at low tide to graze on the marine grasses, which flavors the meat in a specific and, I assume, delicious way -- sadly we didn't have time to try everything.

The point that interests me is that although they still have big grocery stores and industrialized food -- plenty of McDonald's around -- the bar the good stuff reaches is much higher than I've found in Seattle. I'm hoping that means I just have to look harder here.